Posts from May 2017

LightGrams May 25, 2017 Volume 21, Number 18 A story made headlines in March of this year when an independent prospector in Sierra Leone, Africa discovered a 706-carat diamond. The young man was sifting through the mud and sediment in a river when he made the find. It was presented to the president of Sierra…

LightGrams May 18, 2017 Volume 21, Number 17 I remember the feeling of walking on some of the beaches we’ve visited in the past. The sand is usually loose and gives way under my feet as I walk. The process of walking along the beach demands more exertion than I planned. When we visited Daytona…

LightGrams May 11, 2017 Volume 21, Number 16 The letter Melissa Fahy found in a gap under the stairs of her Westfield, New Jersey home was an old one. Written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, a sailor in the Norwegian Navy, it was postmarked May 1945. The letter was filled with love…